CRAIG, Keith Ross
| Service Number: | QX17429 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 29 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/15th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 19 March 1908 |
| Home Town: | Holland Park, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Company Manager |
| Died: | Suicide, Capalaba, Queensland, Australia, 6 March 1946, aged 37 years |
| Cemetery: |
Lutwyche Cemetery, Brisbane, Qld |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement QX17429 | |
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| 29 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Corporal, QX17429, 2nd/15th Infantry Battalion, Kelvin Grove, Qld. | |
| 29 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, QX17429, 2nd/15th Infantry Battalion | |
| 24 Sep 1945: | Discharged | |
| 24 Sep 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, QX17429, 2nd/15th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
MAN AND WIFE
FOUND DEAD
BRISBANE, March 8. - Keith Ross Craig, 38, former prisoner of war, and his wife, Gwendoline Winifred Craig, 34, were found shot near Capalaba, about 10 miles from the city this morning. The couple were last seen in their car about 3 o'colck on Tuesday afternoon driving towards Capalaba. Mrs Craig was slumped up against the left-hand door of the car with a bullet wound below the left eye. Craig was found lying about 8 ft away from the car, shot in the temple. A pea rifle was lying across his right leg. Craig served in the Middle East with the 2/l5th Bn. He was taken prisoner in North Africa, and, after spending about four years in hospital and camps in Italy, Austria and Germany, returned home about September last year. He was discharged two months later. Craig was shot through the top of the lung in North Africa and before it was established that he was a prisoner of war he was reported as having been killed in action. A note found by the police at the scene of the shooting, written in pencil and signed "Keith," stated that Craig had been worried about his own and his wife's health, and about a baby which was expected. The note added: '"I have shot my wife. She did not know anything about it and I am going to follow her." "Forgive me everyone," was the concluding phrase.
The police say that the couple had lived happily together at Holland Park, Brisbane, after Craig's return from overseas.
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